What seed ratio is best? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Should one use 2.0 or infinite?

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[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Generally 2.0 is considered the respectful default option, if you're just using public trackers with no ratio requirements.

Personally, I look at the torrent's overall health.

If it's a super active torrent with hundreds of seeders I'll set it to 1.5 or even 1.0 and auto remove when done to save resources on my homelab server. Sometimes with high seeder counts it can take ages to even hit 1.0. They all get automatically moved to a completed folder when done so I can pick through them and categorize them.

If its a less active torrent I'll choose 2.0 or 3.0.

If it's a super rare torrent with less than three seeders, which there's sure a lot of, I'll set it to infinite to keep it alive. I've gotten some smaller torrents up to a 30+ share ratio.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I was permaseeding Muppet Babies on RARBG (kids stuff is hard to find and I didn't want other people to miss out on this) for these past couple of years. They're smaller files (around 300MB), but I actually managed to hit a 9,999 seed ratio on a few of them before the site shut down as I was the only seeder most of the time.

[-] xoggy@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I have a similar ruleset regarding ratio but mentally I think about time spent seeding. Active torrents I can reach well over my minimum 2.0 ratio by leaving it seeding overnight. Meanwhile, I had a torrent one time for open source software that was very active but had a very large proportion of leechers to seeders. I left it seeding for several months uploading several terabytes in the process. My seed ratio was in the several hundreds but I was happy to take keep the CDN costs off the site.